Scale-to-scale energy transfer rate in compressible two-fluid plasma turbulence

Abstract

We derive the exact relation for the energy transfer in three-dimensional compressible two-fluid plasma turbulence. In the long-time limit, we obtain an exact law which expresses the scale-to-scale average energy flux rate in terms of two point increments of the fluid variables of each species, electric and magnetic field and current density, and puts a strong constraint on the turbulent dynamics. The incompressible single fluid and two-fluid limits and the compressible single fluid limit are recovered under appropriate assumption. In the single fluid limits, analyses are done with and without neglecting the electron mass thereby making the exact relation suitable for a broader range of application. In the compressible two fluid regime, the total energy flux rate, unlike the single fluid case, is found to be unaltered by the presence of a background magnetic field. The exact relation provides a way to test whether a range of scales in a plasma is inertial or dissipative and is essential to understand the nonlinear nature of both space and dilute astrophysical plasmas.

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